Cymindis vaporariorum with all over punctuation of head and pronotum up near the top of Derry Cairngorm at #MarLodge last weekend #coleoptera #beetles #invertebrates

Unbelievable luck to find a beautiful female Arctosa alpigena running towards me in the short grass just below the boulder field on Derry Cairngorm at Mar Lodge in Aberdeenshire yesterday, last UK record 2013
#britishspiders #arachidnololgy #arachnids #MarLodge
@britishspiders.bsky.social

Found one of these again! 😃Thyreosthenius biovatus, from inside a wood ants nest in a wood in northern Derbyshire last weekend 🕷️🐜 #ukspiders #arachnids #spiders

A very shiny 3mm Shining Guest Ant, Formicoxenus nitidulus, from a wood ants nest in Derbyshire last weekend
#ants #hymenoptera #insects #invertebrates

Psammoporus insularis, from under a great heap of debris on Banff Bay beach last weekend 🪲😃
#beetles #coleoptera #insects #scarabaeidae #Banffshire